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03 Aug 2015 7:41:25am

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It needs to be understood that in recent decades just about everyone claiming to be Christian, bar Catholics claim to be evangelical which means the term covers people with very diverse views. The views presented in this article are very much from one end of the spectrum and arguably not representative of most who wish to be called evangelical – certainly this would be true in Australia.

Same sex marriage will continue to be strongly rejected by Christians of orthodox persuasion whether Protestant or Catholic on some mix of biblical, theological and/or natural law grounds. It would be nice to see the ABC religion and ethics department request an article to set out some of these arguments.